After trying to get a decent connection speed using PPTP from StrongVPN I’ve decided to try with OpenVPN.
Currently I’m using StrongVPN to be able to watch Hulu and also to improve a bit the speed of my Internet connection (international link).
As StrongVPN doesn’t have on their website a step-by-step guide of how to configure OpenVPN in NetworkManager (they provide a shell script) I’ve decided to post three simple screenshot that can save you some time if you are confused. The only thing that you need to do is to download a file that they provide with the certificates.

After receiving my new LG 3D TV (32LW5700) I try to connect it to my ‘old’ notebook (Inspiron 6400 with an ATI radeon X1400) using a VGA cable getting only 1280×800). This also may be applied to 42LW5700, 47LW5700, 47LW9500 and 55LW9500 models.Read it all..

After trying to contact the developer of i8krellm without success I’ve decided to post here an small patch to avoid a segfault of this plugin. i8krellm is a plugin for gkrellm to control fans on DELL notebooks via i8kutils.

This mini howto should work with another versions of SmartQ. It only run with some limited features (no X environment, only with nxPADD firmware and it extremly slow). You can get the nxPADD firmware in this post.

You need to have a working QEMU installation with arm support. You also need this kernel (if you have another working kernel put the link as a comment).

The Gnome Power Statistics (an applet for Gnome Panel) show chart (with limited options) of the battery charge (10 minutes, 2 hours, 1 day, 1 week) without the possibility to select an arbitrary interval.
After been reading the source code of this applet I’ve found that it get the data from DeviceKit (Devkit). Once again I check the source code of Devkit and I found that the data is stored in: /var/lib/upower/ (on Gentoo).
So now you can plot this data with another tool (OpenOffice do the trick easily).